30 October 2009

Crowd and snake

I made this upon a page of doodles I drew one year ago traveling to Clermont-Ferrand for the Biennale du Carnet de Voyage. I knew that this was just some idea to work on some day, but I forgot it (as use to do) till the end of the spring in which I was looking for one of those poor forgotten ideas to make a proper, real, finished illustration.

Here is the doodle sheet:

I started copying the doodles on a tracing paper to develop the idea and fix the amount of characters and their positions.

Then I traced it again on another sheet to get everything clearer.

I scanned the second pencil sketch and made the linework in photoshop using a Cintiq tablet/screen.

On different layers I worked simultaneously on the tones...

...and the flat colors...

...to render some volume.

Then I put some lights to get the final result.
To avoid neck pain here is a view towards East.
This is the view towards south...
...and this towards west.